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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say Tash has not lost?
(a) His depressed shuffling.
(b) His stutter.
(c) Any weight.
(d) His swagger or energy.

2. To what does the narrator relate Tupac's arrest?
(a) To Mandela's arrest.
(b) To Mahatma Gandhi's arrest.
(c) To how slaves were brutalized.
(d) To the arrest of others in Queens.

3. Where does Jayjones say black men cannot be caught?
(a) In white neighborhoods.
(b) In white nightclubs.
(c) Anywhere outside of their front door.
(d) In expensive cars.

4. Why does going to a juvenile detention center seem appealing to Neeka?
(a) Because then her mother couldn't make her babysit.
(b) She would be horrified to go to such a place.
(c) To show solidarity with Tash.
(d) For some peace and quiet.

5. What does Neeka want to attain?
(a) Tupac's level of fame.
(b) She has no idea.
(c) A published book.
(d) Enough money to hire a babysitter for her brothers.

6. What do Sly and his friend testify?
(a) That Tash was the only one in on the robbery.
(b) That Tash was in on the robbery.
(c) That Tash is the one who kills Randall.
(d) That Tash has nothing to do with the robbery.

7. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?
(a) So he cannot give them to Tash to make a knife out of.
(b) He doesn't wear glasses.
(c) They are fogging up because he is crying.
(d) To go through the metal detector.

8. Of what is Tash convinced about Sly?
(a) That he is a racist.
(b) That he is gay.
(c) That he is corrupt.
(d) That he is wealthy.

9. What does Neeka say about Tash?
(a) He has a bad temper, but would not do any more than slap a person.
(b) At least he is out of drugs in prison.
(c) He is scary.
(d) He would not hurt a fly.

10. How does Randall resemble Tash?
(a) He is an effeminate gay man.
(b) He is devious.
(c) He is calm and somber.
(d) He is religious.

11. Why does Randall not tell his side of the story?
(a) He hates Tash now.
(b) He is intimidated.
(c) He is hospitalized.
(d) He is dead.

12. What does the narrator compare herself to regarding her height?
(a) She is taller than her mother or father.
(b) She is taller than D or Neeka.
(c) She is as tall as Wilt Chamberlain.
(d) She is as tall as her older brother.

13. How does Tash refer to himself?
(a) The Queen.
(b) Sister.
(c) Tash.
(d) The Princess.

14. Where does the narrator go with Miss Irene one Saturday in the summer?
(a) To visit Tash in prison.
(b) To interview at a college.
(c) To see Neeka's father in a hospital.
(d) To the amphiteater where she had such an emotional experience.

15. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?
(a) Church.
(b) For his school chorus.
(c) A local nightclub.
(d) In his school orchestra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say about D's mother?

2. Where do the girls make snow angels?

3. What is the narrator doing when she says she feels whole for the first time?

4. Who is Daneeka Lucy Jones?

5. What is one thing Jayjones says black people cannot do?

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